Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?

[Horse]

Electric car responds to critics?

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[ZRX61]

Teslas in Hope, B.C., in line waiting 2.5 hours for a charger to continue on to Vancouver...

[Mr. Dazzle]

How did they manage to get a line of Teslas in a photo taken in about 1978?

[Mussels]

Misleading headline of the month?

Climate Change: Half US cars to be zero-emission by 2030 - Biden

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58101907

President Biden wants half of cars sold in the US by 2030 to be zero-emission vehicles, the White House says.

So nothing like half of US cars by 2030

The three biggest US carmakers have welcomed the target, though it is not legally binding.

So achieving that half of new cars sold will be a happy accident if it does happen.

[slowsider]

Perhaps they missed a bit out.
Anyone can do it

Misleading healine of the month?

[KungFooBob]

Just seen the trailer for this...

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy ... ectric-car

I expect a professional critique from Dazzler an hour after it airs.

[Mussels]

[media][/media]

Just seen the trailer for this...

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy ... ectric-car

I expect a professional critique from Dazzler an hour after it airs.

Knowing his other stuff I expect he's found a really obscure category of fast that nobody else has bothered with for 40 years.

[Mr. Dazzle]

[media][/media]

Just seen the trailer for this...

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy ... ectric-car

I expect a professional critique from Dazzler an hour after it airs.

Knowing his other stuff I expect he's found a really obscure category of fast that nobody else has bothered with for 40 years.

Yeah pretty much

No prizes for making a fast quarter mile electric car. There's a million videos of Teslas and whatever doing that trick. S'not even the first TV programme to do it.



Similarly its not news that you can make a fast road legal EV.



I like GM and he always strikes me as someone who genuinely understands the details of what he's doing. But I don't really like these sort of programmes, too serious to be daft like Top Gear, not serious enough to hold my interest

[Dodgy69]

Recorder set for 9pm.

[Mussels]

If he's found a way to beat petrol cars in an endurance race it would be worth watching.

[Mussels]

It's on but I'm struggling to pay attention, I forgot one of his more irritating traits where he pretends to be a clueless idiot. I know he's not a clueless idiot so that must be what he expects his audience to be
Some blatant product placement and going on a bit too much about how amazingly fast an electric Porsche is like he's only driven Nissan Micras before.

It's a bit naff.

[Taipan]

It's on but I'm struggling to pay attention, I forgot one of his more irritating traits where he pretends to be a clueless idiot. I know he's not a clueless idiot so that must be what he expects his audience to be
Some blatant product placement and going on a bit too much about how amazingly fast an electric Porsche is like he's only driven Nissan Micras before.

It's a bit naff.

I've recorded it, but not sure i'll bother with it now? Shame the production team want to lead him into that style show.

[lostboy]

How did they manage to get a line of Teslas in a photo taken in about 1978?

You've not been to BC have you!!

[lostboy]

Polestar 2....



Top spec one has more than 300 mile range and 400bhp. It also has optional adjustable Öhlins suspension with fancy slow and fast rate dampers. Seems kinda pointless on what will almost certainly be a mid level employee's commutin' wagon.

Other reason I want one is there is a dealer about 500m from my house

This is currently (pardon the pun) the only one I'm remotely tempted by. A friend has been running one for a few months now and the range is excellent, the platform is good, it feels like a car - not like something that's been designed to be "clever" and it's typically Volvo in that they've thought of everything from a "use" point of view. He can even get his windsurf board, sails, masts, boom etc. inside it. If they made an estate version I'd have already bought it.

[Horse]

This was on LinkedIn this morning. First I'd heard of it.

https://www.morris-commercial.com/

[Mussels]

It's on but I'm struggling to pay attention, I forgot one of his more irritating traits where he pretends to be a clueless idiot. I know he's not a clueless idiot so that must be what he expects his audience to be
Some blatant product placement and going on a bit too much about how amazingly fast an electric Porsche is like he's only driven Nissan Micras before.

It's a bit naff.

I've recorded it, but not sure i'll bother with it now? Shame the production team want to lead him into that style show.

It was a bit odd, later on after he'd got the adverts out of the way he did his own bit where he tried driving 1,100 miles in 24 hours and talked to some slightly strange petrol heads. That was much more natural, especially the expletives when he found out how much a fast charger cost to use.

[Dodgy69]

Enjoyed it. Always enjoy Guys stuff, an interesting chap. Gets his leccy beetle to santa pod. Getting it moving from a stop seemed to be the challenge. But ye, we're still at the commuting stage, but then that is the big issue. Looks like hybrid is the way.

[Screwdriver]

My takeaway from that program was how unreliable the availability of charging stations is in the real world. Remembering you'll be stuck there for hours waiting for it to "fill up" or stuck there forever if the battery is flat and the station is out of service.

I am not "antibatt" but it makes bugger all difference to global warming (the energy has to come from somewhere...) and I couldn't even afford a secondhand electric bicycle. So my main gripe is that even my super clean LPG converted van is being priced off the roads in favour of these vanity projects.

The only benefit so far as I can tell is that it takes the smog out of densely populated areas and dumps it at the power station. That's fine until the National Grid starts buckling at the knees while the electricity mafia have you by the balls on pricing.

[MrLongbeard]

Enjoyed it as I always do GM's stuff.

IIRC there's talk of Tesla opening up their stations to the lower mortals who drive other brands of EV, but Tesla owners ain't happy about it.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Enjoyed it as I always do GM's stuff.

IIRC there's talk of Tesla opening up their stations to the lower mortals who drive other brands of EV, but Tesla owners ain't happy about it.

That makes sense for Tesla once you get to the point where most EV's aren't Teslas I think. Initially they made money from the fact the supercharger network drove people to buy a Tesla. If/when people are now buying other cars instead of Teslas it makes more sense to open up the network and charge other people to use it?